0
0
2
0
1
W
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P'ship : 3(10)
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That's it from our coverage of the first one-day international between Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. Ninaad Dixit here signing off on behalf of my co-commentator AkshayaKrishna Polya and scorer Ashok Dayma. Stay tuned for more action from around the world.
Best Bowling Figures in ODIs for Azmatullah Omarzai:
4/18 v Zimbabwe at Harare - TODAY*
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4/18 v Zimbabwe at Harare - TODAY*
4/37 v Bangladesh at Sharjah - 2024
3/56 v Sri Lanka at Pallekele - 2024
6:23 PM IST, 2:53 PM Local Time: The match has been abandoned due to rain and wet outfield. It is still heavily raining and even if the rain stops in the next few minutes, there won't be enough time to have the minimum requirement of 20 overs needed to constitute a one-day international.
The toss was delayed by more than 3 hours due to rain and the wet outfield with the match reduced to 28-overs per-side. Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi called it right at the coin flip and elected to bowl first.
Fazalhaq Farooqi and Azmatullah Omarzai swung the new ball early but it was the latter who produced a magical spell and made the batters' life hell on the pitch moving the ball both ways with expertise.
Tadiwanashe Marumani and Brian Bennett were dismissed on consecutive balls in the 4th over with the finger spinner Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar removing Dion Myers in his first over itself. Omarzai in his extended spell reduced the hosts to 41/5 with 2 wickets in the 8th over in form of debutant Ben Curran and Sean Williams.
Only Curran (15) and Myers (12) could reach double figures with the bat. Omarzai was bowling his penultimate (5th) over when rain reappeared and the players walked off, the right arm pacer missing out on a 5-wicket haul and finished with 4/18.
Both the sides will take the field again on Thursday at the same venue.
The toss was delayed by more than 3 hours due to rain and the wet outfield with the match reduced to 28-overs per-side. Afghanistan skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi called it right at the coin flip and elected to bowl first.
Fazalhaq Farooqi and Azmatullah Omarzai swung the new ball early but it was the latter who produced a magical spell and made the batters' life hell on the pitch moving the ball both ways with expertise.
Tadiwanashe Marumani and Brian Bennett were dismissed on consecutive balls in the 4th over with the finger spinner Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar removing Dion Myers in his first over itself. Omarzai in his extended spell reduced the hosts to 41/5 with 2 wickets in the 8th over in form of debutant Ben Curran and Sean Williams.
Only Curran (15) and Myers (12) could reach double figures with the bat. Omarzai was bowling his penultimate (5th) over when rain reappeared and the players walked off, the right arm pacer missing out on a 5-wicket haul and finished with 4/18.
Both the sides will take the field again on Thursday at the same venue.
5:37 PM IST, 2:07 PM Local Time: Rain is back and so are the covers! The groundsmen working hard to pull them on the pitch and the square. The players are walking back in their respective dressing rooms. The on-field umpires are joined by the reserve umpire. They have a word at pitchside before walking back to the shed.
9.2 A Omarzai to S Raza
0 Full on the off stump, driven down to the mid off fielder.
9.1 A Omarzai to S Raza
0 Good length outside the off stump, swinging away from Raza who covers the off stump and lets the ball through.
OVER 9
Zimbabwe
44/5
Craig Ervine
1(3)
Sikandar Raza
1(5)
Allah Mohammad Ghazanfar
1-5(2.0)
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